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2016 Postmortem

geek tragedy

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4. Poppy Bush won because of structural reasons and because he had a weak opponent.

Reply to zipplewrath (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 20, 2016, 01:28 PM

Dec 2016

His election remains an outlier for a number of reasons, the rare third term for the party in power.

LBJ, see your point, but he was already President, like Truman, as you noted.

Ike had zero electoral experience--he was a general, so obviously he was a politician. On paper Adlai Stevenson had more conventional experience.

But in general, experience, qualifications and competence are not winning arguments.

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Presidents since WWII who won first election because they were more qualified than their opponent: [View all] geek tragedy Dec 2016 OP

George Senior zipplewrath Dec 2016 #1

Poppy Bush won because of structural reasons and because he had a weak opponent. geek tragedy Dec 2016 #4

Truman dsc Dec 2016 #2

they inherited the role of president, they weren't elected as President. geek tragedy Dec 2016 #5

Nixon was more qualified than McGovern? Reagan more than Carter? baldguy Dec 2016 #3

No, point is experience wasn't why they won. geek tragedy Dec 2016 #6